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NCLEX Nutrition

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Where can you find good sources of vitamin K?






2. This tool assesses each body system for nutrent excess or deficiency






3. What foods are needed for this deficiency of nutritional anemia - or neural tube defects?






4. If a patient. was riboflavin B2 deficient what foods are good sources of B2?






5. What does DASH stand for?






6. What color vegetables are to be consumed more of?






7. What foods are carbohydrates and provide energy?






8. How much meat/beans should be eaten?






9. What are the 5 major functions of vitamins?






10. What orange vegetables are good to eat?






11. How much grains are to be eaten per day?






12. How much more calories are needed for lactation?






13. Sources of fats






14. When does BMR decrease?






15. What does basal metabolic rate BMR calculate?






16. Where can you find good sources of vitamin E?






17. If patient. has beriberi - or wernicke korsakoff syndrome what type of foods would be needed?






18. When does BMR increase?






19. If protein stores become depleted which can neagatively affect immune system of which lab value






20. How long should a food record or journal is analyzed for nutrient content?






21. What is normal BMI?






22. These nutrients required for proper growth - development - body repair - fluid and electrolyte balance - produce enzymes - hormones and antibodies






23. How much fruit is to be eaten/day?






24. What type of albumin levels will show malnutrtion?






25. Fats can lead to some medical problems






26. What is the function of vitamin E?






27. What foods are good sources of carbohydrates?






28. What vitamin can helps with blood clotting?






29. Good overall indicator of nutritional status becaUse of long half life and maintain until malnutrtion occurs






30. The higher the BMR a client has --






31. What function is vitamin D?






32. What foods are needed for pellegra - dermatitis - diarrhea - and dementia?






33. What type of patients are to utilize nutritional screening initiatives NSI?






34. What is normal albumin levels?






35. What lab value shows iron stores of visceral body protein?






36. Protein stores show short term changes of which lab value






37. What type of people need extra protein?






38. How many calories/gram is protein?






39. What are healthy sources of fats?






40. Name six sources of grains






41. What foods are good if patient. is vitamin A defecient and/or suffer from night blindness or xeropthalmia?






42. Concentrated sources of energy poviding 9 calories/gram






43. Waist circumference correlates apple versus pear body type and reflects risk pattern for disease






44. Promote normal metabolism - and prevent this nutrient from being used for energy






45. What is RDA of protein?






46. Where can you get more vitamin D?






47. How much more calories are needed for pregnancy?






48. What blood levels are checked for decrease in iron?






49. If inadequate amounts of protein can lead to this






50. Insufficient intake of carbohydrate results in these two nutrients being used as energy